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02-07-2011, 09:30 AM | #17 |
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0.7.44 should include the PML input changes to retain soft scene breaks. 0.7.45 has some tweaks tp make detection mre reliable. As always if there are issues this is good place to discus and if there is a bug, the bug tracker is the place to report bugs so they dont get lost.
Also, with 0.7.45 the soft scene breaks will be preserved in PML (eReader PDB) output too. I did notice that the eReader software (I didnt check with the B&N branded one) will condense 2(?) blank lines into one. So a PML document will need at least 3 blank lines for soft scene breaks. As noted earlier \c \c seems to be often used with soft scene breaks. |
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Now I've converted a series of eReader PDB e-books in which there are no soft scene breaks at all. In the original e-books, the first paragraph of each chapter is not indented while other paragraphs have first-line indentation. When I convert the PDBs to EPUB format, the first paragraph of each chapter looks fine, but instead of first-line indentation all other paragraphs are fully indented from the left margin.
Is this a bug, or do I just need to change some settings to get the EPUBs to come out like the originals? In addition to only indenting the first line of each paragraph except the first paragraph of each chapter, can I set Calibre not to insert extra space between paragraphs? This is not as important as the indentation issue, of course, but I'd like to see if I can get the converted e-books to look as much like the originals as possible. |
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My guess is your book is doing something like: Code:
\tO\tnce upon at time... |
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02-10-2011, 06:15 AM | #20 | |
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This is the last sentence of a chapter. \p \X1\B\c2 \c\B\X1Here begins the first paragraph of the next chapter. This paragraph is not indented. \T="10%"Subsequent paragraphs look like this. They are supposed to have first-line indentation (and they appear to in eReader; in eBook Studio they have a 10% tab stop at the beginning of each paragraph, but no indentation) but when converted they are block indented. \T="10%"New paragraph here, same story for all paragraphs except the first paragraph of each chapter. |
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02-10-2011, 09:09 PM | #21 |
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I've pushed up changes to the handling of \t and \T tags. There is no way to get them 100% mapped to XHTML unfortunately. \t and \T can do some very strange things and are highly dependent fix positions within the viewer screen. So, only certain, common cases are handled.
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\tText ... end of Text\t Code:
Text ... end of text Code:
\tText ... end of Text\t Code:
Text ... end of text Code:
\tT\text ... end of Text Code:
Text ... end of text Code:
\T="5%"Text ... end of Text Code:
Text ... end of text Code:
Text ... \tend\t of\T="5%" Text Code:
Text ... end of Text |
02-11-2011, 01:58 AM | #22 |
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That looks great! Thanks very much for addressing the issue, and for the detailed explanation.
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Now, that's not to say some certain book or publisher may not use this differently and I'm certain I've read the occasional book that does, but I think these are in the minority. - Byron |
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02-11-2011, 11:33 AM | #24 |
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Both are scene breaks and serve the same purpose. However, they are indicated using differnt typographical techniques. We are making the distinction because we have to use different techiques to determine if we have encountered one or the other when parsing the text.
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02-12-2011, 06:24 PM | #25 |
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Once again, problem fixed. I'm loving Calibre and user_none! Thank you thank you thank you.
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